Every year millions of Americans make resolutions, and every year those same Americans fall short of reaching their goals. To fuel a commitment toward a healthier financial well-being in 2020, the Invest In You team asked readers and viewers to reveal their goals. The response was overwhelming — and humbling. Several themes emerged, including investing
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XFA’s Bill Looney is seeing more traders making bets that a monster market move is coming. Looney is making the observation from the market’s front lines, where he helps facilitate trades on behalf of large institutional clients. “The theme is the investors are positioned on the tail side of the market,” he told CNBC’s “Trading
The “Fast Money” traders shared their first moves for the market open. Tim Seymour was a buyer of Alibaba. Chris Verrone was a buyer of GE. Dan Nathan was a buyer of Pinterest. Guy Adami was a buyer of Eli Lilly. Disclosure Trader disclosure: Tim Seymour is long AMZA, AMZN, AAPL, ACBFF, ACRGF, ALEF, ACB,
This year may bring sticker shock for publicly traded U.S. companies when they get their insurance bill. The risks of being sued have skyrocketed and the price of insurance premiums is rising right alongside, especially for liability insurance to cover directors and officers, or D&O. Insurance broker and consulting firm Woodruff Sawyer said D&O costs
People burn a poster representing US President Donald Trump to protest against the killing of Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani in Iraq. PRAKASH SINGH | AFP | Getty Images A former CIA officer told CNBC on Thursday that it’s likely Iran will carry out small-scale cyberattacks to avoid U.S. retaliation. “They perfectly understand that the U.S.
European stocks are set to open higher Thursday as investor sentiment improved on the back of easing U.S.-Iran tensions. Britain’s FTSE 100 is seen climbing 24 points to 7,590, Germany’s DAX rising 87 points to 13,401 and France’s CAC increasing 31 points to 6,055, according to IG index data. It comes after comments from President
It’s not particularly difficult to argue that Quibi, the streaming video service invented by longtime entertainment executive Jeffrey Katzenberg and former HP Enterprise and eBay CEO Meg Whitman, is a flawed idea. When entrepreneurs build companies, it’s standard procedure to identify a problem that needs to be solved first. The more pressing the problem, the
Carlina Teteris The stock market kicked off 2020 in the red, but that doesn’t mean you should shy away from investing. Major stock indexes ended 2019 on a strong note — the S&P 500 was up 28.9% for the year. However, stocks tumbled into the red during the first few days of 2020 after a
Jeffrey Gundlach speaking at the 2019 SOHN Conference in New York on May 6th, 2019. Adam Jeffery | CNBC DoubleLine CEO Jeffrey Gundlach said the financial markets might have to brace for a Bernie Sanders scare in 2020. The so-called bond king believes the independent senator from Vermont is the odds-on favorite to win the
A flag flies outside the Citigroup building in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, New York. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Citigroup is making David Chubak its new head of U.S. retail banking at a critical time for the third-largest U.S. bank. Chubak, who held largely strategic roles across the New York-based